Writing or copying pad.



, Patented Aug. 26, I902 r.v a. J. POST. WRITING 0B COPYING PAD.

(Application filed Apr. 12, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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terns FRIEDRICH GUSTAV JULIUS POST, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

WRITING OR COPYING PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,942, dated August26, 1902.

Application filed April 12, 1902. Serial No. 102,646. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH GUSTAV JULIUS POST, a subject of theGerman Emperor, and a resident of Hamburg, in the German Empire, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Writing or Copying Pads,of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in Writing and copyingpads, the object being to produce a pad which is more fit or appropriateto the purpose than the ordi nary pads hitherto in use; and with thisend in view my invention consists in certain novel features ofarrangement and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fullydescribed With reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in whichI have shown a view in perspective of my improved writing and copyingpad.

The improved pad consists of a layer a, of a soft elastic material,covered on one or preferably on both its flat sides Withasheet or sheetsZ), of a hard inelastic material. The layer a may be formed or made of afleece of fine cotton-wool or felt, while as covering-sheets thininelastic oiled paper sheets may be used. The covering-sheets b arefixed to the sides of the fleece a, preferably by cementing, so that thefleece and the sheets form one single pad, which may be used as awriting-pad or as a pad for press-copying letters, &c., as the case maybe.

Ordinary writing-pads of soft leather or blotting-paper have thedisadvantage that their surfaces offer only a very little resistance tothe pen, whence it follows that in writing the pen impresses thewriting-paper into the soft pad of blotting-paper, leather, &c., wherebythe penis rather often caused to injure or puncture the writing-paper.At

all events, however, the inflections or curvations of the paper whichare caused by the pressure of the pen prevent the latter, leadpencil,&c., from sliding lightly and quickly over the paper. Theabove-mentioned drawbacks are fully obviated by the improvedwriting-pad, as disadvantageous inflections or curvations of thewriting-paper or the oiled-paper sheet, respectively, cannot occur onaccount of the greater hardness and resistance of the covering sheet orsheets I).

In spite of the non-elasticity of the covering-sheets the improved padyet possesses a sufficient elasticity, because the said liningsheets arecarried or supported by an elastic or yielding cushion-na1nely, thefleece a. The inelastic covering-sheets I) act, so to speak, as dampersof the yieldingness of the fleece and secure a uniform elastic supportof the Writing-paper placed upon the pad.

When used for press-copying letters, &c., my improved pad acts in aquite similar manner and offers a uniform elastic resistance all overits surface, so that the copying or tissue paper or papers are pressedwith a uniform elastic pressure against or upon the letters or documentsto be copied.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A new article of manufacture, a pad for writing or copying purposescomprising a layer of soft felt having a sheet of oiled paper cementedto one or both its faces, as set forth.

FRIEDRICH GUSTAV JULIUS POST.

Witnesses:

MAX LEMOKE, E. H. L. MUMMENHOFF.

